Police Raids and Urban Crime Revealed in Incredible Photos by Gordon Parks
Frances Mulraney and Tate Delloye, Daily Mail
June 2020
The epic crime scene photographs of Gordon Parks, the first black photographer on the staff of Life magazine, have been collected into a new book more than 60 years after he revolutionized how cops and criminals were pictured. Parks, a self-trained master photographer, filmmaker and composer, took a six-week journey to four of America’s biggest cities in 1957 to capture scenes of crime, resulting in the essay ‘The Atmosphere of Crime,’ which reshaped how the dynamics between the police and those they arrested were viewed. […]